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| Observing on Mauna Kea |
| January, 2004 |
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| H-Alpha images of the sun taken with my Fuji s5000 digital camera from Hale Pohaku, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Exposure time 1/60th of sec with camera held over 8mm Nagler. The telescope was a Coronado Maxscope 70 (Nearstar) H-Alpha scope mounted with a C11 on a Losmandy G-11 Eq. Mount. The instruments belong to the Visitor's Center at Mauna Kea. More Images Here |
| Mauna Kea from the Heavens! A shot of the mountain from the plane flying above the clouds. |
| Close up of the summit area of the mountain. The bright spot to the right is the Subaru Telescope! |
| Hale Pohaku, the middle level dining and residence area for all astronomers working on Mauna Kea. I stayed here during the whole observing run on Mauna Kea. |
| The view of Mauna Loa from my room window early in the morning. The visitor's center is to the right of the image. |
| I found this non-native bird, Erckel's francolin, near the visitor's center. It was first introduction in the Hawaiian Islands in 1923. |
| Renaud Savalle, a programmer at the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. Renaud and I did some nice CCD imaging with his LX90 and ST237 CCD camera from the Visitor's Center. |
| The NASA Infra-Red Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea from where we observed asteroids during the observing run.The observatory houses a 3-meter Cassegrain Telescope. |
| Me at the IRTF entrance. |
| The Orange Yellow NASA Infra-Red Telescope with its instruments! |
| Me with SpeX (the box to the left of my head). SpeX is the spectrograph we used for observing asteroids. |
| SpeX control computers. BigDog and GuideDog! |
| My advisor Dr Paul Hardersen and me at the snow-covered summit of Mauna Kea! |
| The Japanese Subaru Telescope. |
| The 8-meter Gemini North Observatory! |
| The 4-meter Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea |
| Sunsets on Mauna Kea |
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| Sunset in white-light. Image taken with a Fuji s5000 held to the eyepiece of a C11 with full aperture glass solar filter from Hale Pohaku, Mauna Kea. |
| Sunset in H-alpha. Image taken with a Fuji s5000 held to the eyepiece of a Coronado Maxscope 70 from Hale Pohaku, Mauna Kea. |
| Volcano World |
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| Dr Paul Abell at his best on the lava flows in Hawaii. |
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| Not the best place to park your car! |
| Me at the lava flows on Hawaii |